Tag: vfx

ASDA - 'Wine'

One of many ads completed at Rushes for Asda, Christmas 2013. This one features 3 variations of one technique to pull off the 3 transitions between the 3 locations. The transitions were shot twice (once in each environment) using a steadicam rig. Mix and overlay was essential on set to get the timings of each handover as perfectly matched as possible. In Flame, each plate was stabalised, aligned, and then elements were individually morphed and combined with background wipes to complete the feeling of moving seamlessly from house to house.

Agency: VCCP
Production Company: Park Village
Director: Alan Friel
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

Breach - 'Everything You Never Had'

This was all shot in a black studio on motion control with only 2 dancers. We combined the moco passes. Some keying, rotoscoping. Then tracking in a halo on the angel. It was loads of work and for a very small budget but I wanted to take it on cause I liked the track.

Production Company: Riff Raff
Director: The Sacred Egg
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

Kings of Leon - 'Supersoaker'

Music video for the debut single from the album ‘Mechanical Bull’. Each shot was rotoscoped and multiple treatments and grades were applied to individual elements in each composite to create a scrapbook type feel.

Production Company: Academy
Director: WIZ
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston & Matt Jackson
Colourist: Simone Grattarola

ASOS - 'Charlotte Free'

1 of 3 online ads for clothing brand ASOS, directed by Luke Monaghan. This is my my favourite of the three. VFX work included set extensions and beauty work.

Director: Luke Monaghan
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

FCUK - 'I am the Collection' Trailer

The campaign trailer for the “I am the Collection” series of French Connection UK ads.

Product: French Connection
Agency: 101
Creative Director: Richard Flintman
Agency Producer: Jack Waters
Copywriter: Dirk Van Dooren
Production Company: OneSix7
Directors: Leila & Damien de Blinkk
Producer: Abi Hodson
Cinematography: Marc Gomez del Moral
Art Director: Alice Stein
Editing Company: Cut & Run
Editor: Ben Campbell
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Colourist: Simone Grattarolla

FCUK - 'I Am The Suit'

Created by 101, directed and photographed by Leila and Damien de Blinkk, styled by Georgina Hodson with cinematography by Marc Gomez del Moral. FCUK’s “I am the Collection” campaign marks a change from past creative communications, focusing on the clothes and celebrating the power and the possibility of the garment.

Product: French Connection
Agency: 101
Creative Director: Richard Flintman
Agency Producer: Jack Waters
Copywriter: Dirk Van Dooren
Production Company: OneSix7
Directors: Leila & Damien de Blinkk
Producer: Abi Hodson
Cinematography: Marc Gomez del Moral
Art Director: Alice Stein
Editing Company: Cut & Run
Editor: Ben Campbell
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Colourist: Simone Grattarolla

W.I.C - 'Nowhere Flag'

One of a handful of videos I directed for this band. This was shot with no budget at all across a number of weekends in central London. Of course, London is never empty so I did a lot of painting out of people, taxis and buses. I turned off the screens in Piccadilly Circus and all street lamps and shop window lighting, tracked in a load of demolition tape and then comped the explosions from the news footage of the US “shock & awe” bombing of Baghdad onto the view of London from Parliament hill (And knocked over the Shard – which had been completed that week). I also replaced all of the skies with moody clouds to hide the fact that the weather was different every day that we shot.

Director: Leo Weston
Camera: Alex Pyper
Editor: Leo Weston
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Colourist: Jack Mcginity

Hyundi - 'Big'

A car drives past loads of stuff that is big. Most of the VFX work was done by Matt Jackson. I comped the sequence with the chandelier above the roundabout.

Agency: M & C Saatchi
Creative Director: Simon Dicketts
Production Company: Serious Pictures
Director: John Pardue
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Matt Jackson & Leo Weston

Al Jazeera - 'Stars'

This was created entirely out of stills and a load of paint flying around.

Director: GotGotNeed
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Matt Jackson & Leo Weston

Burberry - 'Body'

Mario Testino’s Film for Burberry Body

Director: Mario Testino
Production Company: Look Films
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston & Matt Jackson